Study Contract Manager

Introduction to role:
Are you ready to turn precise contracting into faster site start-up and greater impact for people living with cancer? Do you thrive at the intersection of finance, law, and clinical operations, where clear agreements drive real-world outcomes?

In this role, you will shape how clinical sites partner with us, ensuring budgets reflect Fair Market Value, terms are watertight, and timelines move with purpose. Your work will help accelerate studies across a rich pipeline in cancer, connecting rigorous contracting with patient access to novel therapies sooner.

You will join a high-energy team committed to advancing transformative medicines. By leading negotiations and safeguarding contract integrity, you will remove friction from study start-up, protect audit readiness, and enable our scientists and clinicians to focus on delivering the next wave of breakthroughs.

Accountabilities:

• Local Contracting Excellence: Adapt global agreement templates for local use in line with local requirements and SOPs to ensure compliant, fit-for-purpose contracts.

• Budget Development: Build clinical site budgets based on Fair Market Value to create transparent and sustainable financial frameworks for each site.

• Site Negotiations: Negotiate agreement language and budgets with clinical study sites to align expectations, mitigate risk, and set studies up for success.

• Legal Interface: Serve as a point of contact with Legal, when needed, to uphold the integrity of contracts and resolve issues efficiently.

• End-to-End Contract Ownership: Maintain the status of each agreement, budgets, issues, payments, amendments, and all related communications throughout the study lifecycle.

• Document Integrity: Ensure final contract documents accurately reflect negotiated agreements and are complete, consistent, and ready for execution.

• Start-Up Acceleration: Drive timely execution of all agreements to meet or beat site start-up timelines and keep studies on plan.

• Audit Readiness: Support internal and external audit activities, ensuring documentation and processes meet expectations at any time.

• Compliance Stewardship: Uphold our Code of Conduct and all policies relating to people, finance, technology, and security.

• Trial Master File Discipline: Ensure all contracts are accurately filed in the Trial Master File to enable transparency and inspection readiness.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Adapt global templates of agreements to local use in accordance with local requirements and SOPs.

• Develop and negotiate clinical site budgets based on Fair Market Value.

• Negotiate agreement language and budget with clinical study sites.

• Act as point of contact and interface with Legal if necessary to ensure integrity of contracts.

• For each agreement maintain the status of agreement, budgets, issues, payments, any amendments for the duration of the study, and communications with internal and external sources.

• Ensure final contract documents are consistent with agreements reached at negotiations.

• Ensure all agreements are executed in a timely manner contributing to efficient site start-up timelines.

• Support internal and external audit activities.

• Ensure compliance with AstraZeneca’s Code of Conduct and company policies and procedures relating to people, finance, technology and security.

• Ensure that all contracts are included in the TMF.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Training and mentoring of new members of the local Study Team regarding financial/contractual issues and sharing experiences.

• Support preparation and negotiation of a Local Master Service Agreement.

• Contribute to process improvements, knowledge transfer and best practice sharing.

Why AstraZeneca:
Here, your contracting expertise fuels science with urgency and care. We are advancing a diverse pipeline in cancer and investing at pace, aiming to bring multiple new medicines to patients by 2025. You will work alongside experts from clinical operations, legal, finance, data, and discovery—unexpected teams in the same room unleashing bold thinking—so that complex studies move faster and smarter. We back ambition with practical support, value kindness alongside high standards, and collaborate deeply with leading hospitals and academic centers to tackle some of the toughest cancers. Every precise clause you negotiate and every day you save helps transform potential into real patient benefit.

Call to Action:
If you are ready to turn sharp negotiation and meticulous execution into faster trials and bigger patient impact, step forward and help shape what comes next!

Date Posted

03-mar.-2026

Closing Date

17-mar.-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.